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Expanded time: exceptional scenes from Happyend, The Mastermind, and The Secret Agent stir the viewer out of the solipsism of ...

Drumroll, please: critics Bilge Ebiri and Amy Taubin join for a real-time countdown of the films topping our year-end critics ...

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2025 coverage. Read all the lists here. Greaser’s Palace (Robert Downey Sr., 1972). Courtesy of Anthology Film Archives. There were more new 4K ...

Michael Koresky is the senior curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. He frequently writes for the Criterion Collection, and hosts and ...

The dozen or so theaters that regularly offer repertory programming in New York afford a vantage on a vast moviegoing landscape that can be traversed nonstop. Here everything old is new again—what ...

(Elia Suleiman, France/Belgium/Italy, 2009)Although it actually stands as the final act in Elia Suleiman’s loosely linked trilogy of semi-autobiographical “chronicles” of Palestinian life (Chronicle ...

(Nikita Mikhalkov, Russia, 2007)For numerically titled Russian movies of the moment, stick with 4 instead of 12. Old soul Nikita Mikhalkov’s appropriation of the 12 Angry Men template is a bloated ...

(Neil Jordan, U.S./Ireland, 2009)Swooping across sparkling azure waters, the first shots of Neil Jordan’s Ondine envision Ireland amid a sea bubbling with ancient mystical forces. When the camera ...

Ranked according to the time of their last feature film release ...

(Warner Archive, $18.95)As John Ford said to a teenage Spielberg: “Where’s the horizon?” In Philip Kaufman’s 1974 film it rises almost to the top of the frame, an unforgiving expanse governed by harsh ...